Risk to finger benches Rashad Johnson

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Oct 2, 2013

Cardinals safety-turned-cult hero Rashad Johnson didn’t play last week after losing the tip of his left middle finger the week before against the Saints. The Cardinals got good play out of their 10-fingered safeties last week, so that gives the team a cha… (more)nce to let Johnson get well, and get out of this deal with as much finger left as possible. Johnson will try a new cast for this week and it’s likely he’ll return for the Carolina game, but there’s no promise because of the possibility of infection. “There’s no telling what germs you’re trapping in there when you ball it up and put the cast on,” Arians said. “The stitches are still there.

Rashad Johnson at risk of losing more finger

Cardinals safety-turned-cult hero Rashad Johnson didn’t play last week after losing the tip of his left middle finger the week before against the Saints. And there were apparently fears he could have lost enough more of the digit had he given it a shot.…